“Prim... Rue... aren't they the very reason I have to try to fight? Because what has been done to them is so wrong, so beyond justification, so evil that there is no choice? Because no one had the right to treat them as they have been treated? Yes. This is the thing to remember when fear threatens to swallow me up.”

American author and television writer

Suzanne Collins is an American author and television writer. She is best known for writing the young adult dystopian series The Hunger Games. She also wrote The Underland Chronicles, a children’s fantasy series. Her work is closely associated with fiction for younger readers, especially stories set in imagined worlds shaped by conflict, survival, and power.